Overclocking my E6600

Hey guys, never really looked into overclocking anything, i had a read of that numbnuts guide but still cant make sense of it, i was wondering if anyone is kind enough to tell me what to put my settings at to put my E6600 to 3GHz(or another safe speed), unless that's not safe at all.

NOTE: Using standard cooling supported by 3 case fans.

Any help is appreciate!

Thanks again

Plugging in numbers, doesn't always work. At best it will only give you a general idea of where your voltages and settings should be. If the plugged in numbers don't work, then you are at a lost as to what could be the culprit causing the problem. Is it CPU vcore? NB vcore? Memory speed? Memory timings? heat? cpu vtt voltage? There are so many possibilities. The only real way for you to overclock is to actually start changing the settings on your motherboard slowly, in an incremental way. This way when you do encounter failure, it will not be a black screen, BSOD or hard lock up. Incremental overclocking offers the safest way, because you're overclocking slowly, you're more likely to just get stress test failures only.

As outlined by the guide: Turn off, C1E, Speedstep. Change all your voltages to the nominal values. Lower your ram speed, either with ratio value or by unlinking(only on Nvidia Chipset board).

From here, increase your bus speed by 5mhz - 10mhz. Testing each time you increase with a program that can stress your CPU and system. When you encounter failure, change 1 voltage or adjust 1 setting only. Take note of what you did, on paper, spread sheet, etc. Control of what changes you did and its effect your CPU and motherboard will help you understand overclocking more than just plugging in numbers.

OC is not an exact science, nor does it behave the same across the board. Good luck.